The great hero Beowulf, wrestling with the monster Grendel, split the sinews of his foe and snapped his arm off at the shoulder. Going up against the monster's mother, he slammed her to the earth, ...

The highest — and driest — bit of early Western civilization to survive the ages is that pre-medieval Germanic epic poem in an indecipherable old English dialect that has been giving high schoolers ...

"Beowulf" is more than the U.S. Army's new cold-weather all-terrain vehicle. It's a centuries-old Anglo-Saxon heroic epic, the story of a loyal warrior who answers a call of duty to help his comrades.

It's not often that we learn plenty about a major upcoming big-screen project before it's even begun shooting, but that's the case with Grendel, a live-action retelling of the Old English epic Beowulf ...

It might be based on an Old English poem from 700 AD, but producer Steve Starkey is hoping that Beowulf's timeless themes of heroism, hubris and deceit are capable of captivating the iPod generation.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - What have they done to "Beowulf," everyone's least favourite Old English epic about a hero's battles with a monster, the monster's mother and an annoying dragon that ...